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Robert Lashley was a 2016 Jack Straw Fellow, Artist Trust Fellow, and a nominee for a Stranger Genius Award. His previously published books include Green River Valley (Blue Cactus Press, 2021), Up South (Small Doggies Press, 2017), and The Homeboy Songs (Small Doggies Press, 2014). His poetry has appeared in Terrain, The Seattle Review of Books, NAILED, Poetry Northwest, McSweeney's, Make It True, Winter In America, Again, and The Cascadia Review, among others. In 2019, Entropy named The Homeboy Songs one of the 25 essential books to come out of Seattle.. His novel, I Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer (Demersal, 2023), was selected as a finalist for a Washington State Book Award in 2024, and in 2025 was selected as one of bookshop.com's 30 favorite Black books in the last 10 years. Robert lives in Bellingham.
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